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COGAN, Ernest Desmond
(Service number 6/433)

LCpl Ernest Desmond Cogan — (Supplement, Auckland Weekly News, 1 July 1915, p.38 )

Lance Corporal E D Cogan — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Geraldine, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Edward Cogan (father), care of Langdown and Son, Christchurch, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallipoli
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	8 May 1915	Age	26
Place of Death	Gallipoli
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Twelve Tree Copse (New Zealand) Memorial, Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Helles, Turkey : Memorial plaque, Bank of New Zealand (Officers of the BNZ who laid down their lives in the Great War AD 1914-1919), BNZ Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Edward A and Caroline Groombridge Cogan, of 783, George St., Dunedin.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [22 Nov 2013]; Military Record held at Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R21895708; Probate held at Archives New Zealand, Christchurch Office Item ID R22392811

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Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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